Conference oral presentations (peer reviewed)
Taha A., Patón M. and Rodríguez J. Metabolic trade-offs between energy yield and driving force in microbial CO2 fixation. 18th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion. June 2024, Istanbul (Turkey).
Taha A., Patón M. and Rodríguez J. Can we narrow the gap? Computational evaluation of energy trade-offs for existing (top-down) and conceivable (bottom-up) microbial pathways for microbiome engineering. 10th IWA Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering Specialist Conference, September 2023, Brisbane (Australia).
Allegue T., Rafay R., Chandran S. and Rodríguez J. Inhibition limits by undissociated acids in mixed culture fermentation and strategies to increase process capacity. 6th IWA Ecotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment Conference (EcoSTP23), June 2023, Girona (Spain).
Ahmed W., Siefan A., Rodríguez J. System-wide modelling of the water cycle in a seawater energy and agriculture system for process design and operation. CESE2022 Conference November 2022, Dubai (UAE).
Allegue T., Rafay R., Chandran S., Rodríguez J. Lactate addition boosts valerate yields in granular mixed culture carbohydrate fermentation. CESE2022 Conference November 2022, Dubai (UAE).
Allegue T., Rafay R., Chandran S., Rodríguez J. Optimizing valerate yields in granular mixed culture carbohydrate fermentation by adding lactate. 17th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion. June 2022, Ann Arbor (USA).
Allegue T., Rafay R., Patón M., Rodríguez J. Lactic acid addition increases valerate yield in granular mixed culture glucose fermentation. 4th IWA Resource Recovery Conference. September 2021, Istanbul (Turkey).
Allegue T, Rafay R., Chandran S., Rodríguez J. Exploring the product inhibition limits in mixed culture glucose fermentation. 4th IWA Resource Recovery Conference. September 2021, Istanbul (Turkey).
Patón M. and Rodríguez J. (2019). A revision of microbial growth yields in anaerobic digestion. 16th IWA World Conference on Anaerobic Digestion (AD16). June 23-27, 2019. Delft, The Netherlands,
Patón M., Hernández H. H., and Rodríguez J In-depth bioenergetic evaluation of propionate oxidation pathways. 16th IWA World Conference on Anaerobic Digestion (AD16). June 23-27, 2019. Delft, The Netherlands,
Patón M., González-Cabaleiro R. and Rodríguez J. Accurate modelling of key physicochemical variables in anaerobic digestion requires activity corrections. 15th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion. October 2017, Beijing (China)
Ahmed W. and Rodríguez J. Sulfate reduction on acetate and hydrogen alone provides a good compromise on model structure complexity in AD. 15th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 17th-20th October 2017, Beijing (China)
Patón M., González-Cabaleiro R. and Rodríguez J. Activity corrections are needed for the correct physicochemical modelling of key anaerobic digestion variables. Frontiers International Conference on Wastewater Treatment. 21st-24th May 2017, Palermo (Italy)
Ismail KA., Patón M., Ayllón F. and Rodríguez J. Modelling the Bioenergetics Effect of High Temperature During Microbial Nitrogen Removal in Sewage Treatment Plants. 5th International Conference on Water Energy and Environment. March 2017, Sharjah (UAE)
Taha A., Patón M. and Rodríguez J. Modelling Bioelectrochemical Systems as a Feasible Denitrification Approach in Absence of Electron Donors. 5th International Conference on Water Energy and Environment. Mar 2017, Sharjah (UAE)
González-Cabaleiro R., Lema J.M. and Rodríguez J. Metabolic energy-based modelling explains the pH effect on anaerobic fermentation product yields. 14th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion. November 2015. Vina del Mar (Chile). Winner of Platform Presentation Award
Ismail K., Ayllón F and Rodríguez J. Achieving efficient nitrogen removal in high temperature and salinity wastewater treatment. UAE Graduate Students Research Conference GSRC15, 2015, Abu Dhabi (UAE)
Ahmed W., Uratani JM. and Rodríguez J. Modelling Sulphate Reduction in Anaerobic Digestion: A Model Complexity Comparative Study. UAE Graduate Students Research Conference GSRC15, 2015, Abu Dhabi (UAE)
Jayswal N. and Rodríguez J. Impact Of High Temperature In Vertical Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands: HYDRUS Modelling Study. IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition. 21st-26th September 2014, Lisbon, Portugal.
González-Cabaleiro R., Ofiteru I.D., Lema JM., Rodríguez J. Microbial energy harvesting rate explains the success of specific strains and metabolisms in mixed culture fermentation. IWA Science Summit for Urban Water, 13th-17th July 2014, Harbin, China.
González-Cabaleiro R., Ofiteru I.D., Lema JM., Kleerebezem R., Rodríguez J. Anaerobic fermentation pathway reversibility for bioenergy applications. World Renewable Energy Congress XIII and Exhibition, 4th-8th August 2014, London (UK)
Oyetunde T., Gonzalez-Cabaleiro R., Ahmad F. and Rodríguez J.. A generalised Excel/C-compatible Simulink-based implementation architecture for fast model development and simulations. 11th IWA conference on instrumentation control and automation. 18-20 September 2013, Narbonne, France.
González-Cabaleiro R., Lema J.M., Rodríguez J., Kleerebezem R. Linking thermodynamics and kinetics to assess pathway reversibility in anaerobic fermentations. 13th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 25th-28th June 2013, Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Awarded Best Platform Presentation of the overall conference
Chaturvedi T., Uratani J.M., Thomsen M.H., Rodríguez J. Evaluation of pre-treatment conditions of biomass waste from the halophyte Salicornia bigelovii cultivated in sea water. 13th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 25th-28th June 2013, Santiago de C. (Spain)
Al-Gaoud R., Kumaraswamy R. and Rodríguez J.(2012). Microbial community analysis during start-up of a full scale VSSF constructed wetland in arid climatic conditions. 13th IWA International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control, 25th -29th November 2012. Perth (Australia).
Conference posters (peer reviewed)
Taha A, Patón M, Rodríguez J. In-silico determination of superior CO2 fixation pathways for engineered microbial strains. 19th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology. August 2024, Cape Town (South Africa).
Patón M, Allegue T and Rodríguez J. Impact of undissociated acids on microbial maintenance in anaerobic fermentation systems: A bioenergetic description. 18th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion. June 2024, Istanbul (Turkey)
Allegue T. and Rodríguez J. Assessing the biodegradability of monoethanolamine for industrial wastewater treatment applications. 6th IWA Ecotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment Conference (EcoSTP23), June 2023, Girona (Spain).
Allegue T, Rafay R., Chandran S., Coe L., Amin SA, Fowler SJ, Rodríguez J. Bacterial community structure involved in mixed culture carbohydrate fermentation at high substrate concentrations. 18th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology. August 2022, Lausanne (Switzerland).
Allegue T., Chandran S., Coe L., Amin S.A., Rodríguez J. Microbially-mediated nitrogen cycling in an integrated aquaculture and halo-agriculture system. 18th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology. August 2022, Lausanne (Switzerland).
Allegue T, Rafay R., Chandran S., Rodríguez J. “Aggregated biomass and pH to increase the products concentration limits of carbohydrate fermentation”. 17th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion. June 2022, Ann Arbor (USA).
Patón M, Hernández HH and Rodríguez J. A bioenergetic metabolic pathway analysis of syntrophic propionate degradation in anaerobic digestion. 8th IWA Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering Specialist Conference. 17-20th Nov 2019 Hiroshima, Japan.
Ahmed W. and Rodríguez J. Automatic optimum start-up of anaerobic digesters using model predictive control and practically feasible sets of measurements. 16th IWA World Conference on Anaerobic Digestion (AD16). June 23-27, 2019. Delft, The Netherlands,
Scandura G., Rodriguez J., Palmisano G. Hydrogen production from butyric acid photoreforming over Pt-TiO2. Hydrogen days 2019 - 10th International conference on hydrogen technologies. 27th-29th March, 2019; Prague, (Czech Republic)
Patón M. and Rodríguez J. The bioenergetics of ADM1 reactions calls for a revision of VFA degradation yields and kinetics. 15th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion. 17th-20th October 2017, Beijing (China)
Ahmed W. and Rodríguez J. Biokinetic parameter estimation and calibration in AD models can be achieved based on correlations and single variable optimisations alone. 15th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 17th-20th October 2017, Beijing (China)
Uratani JM., Patón M., Ahmed W. and Rodríguez J. Reversible acetate oxidation can be incorporated in anaerobic digestion modelling using thermodynamic regulation. 15th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 17th-20th October 2017, Beijing (China)
Taha A., Patón M. and Rodríguez J. Modelling Bioelectrochemical Systems as a Feasible Denitrification Approach in Absence of Electron Donors. 6th ISMET Conference. 3rd-6th October 2017, Lisbon (Portugal)
Patón M. and Rodríguez J. Dynamic thermodynamic simulation of ADM1 validates the hydrogen inhibition approach and suggests an unfeasible butyrate degradation pathway. Frontiers International Conference on Wastewater Treatment. 21st-24th May 2017, Palermo (Italy)
Ismail KA., Patón M.and Rodríguez J. Thermodynamic modelling is needed to describe the effect of high temperature on microbial nitrogen removal processes. Frontiers International Conference on Wastewater Treatment. 21st-24th May 2017, Palermo (Italy)
González-Cabaleiro R., Lema JM. and Rodríguez J. Can bioenergetics be more predictive of microbial ecosystems activity than community identity? 4th Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine Symposium 5th-7th November 2016 Abu Dhabi (UAE)
González-Cabaleiro R., Lema JM. and Rodríguez J. Bioenergetics defines pathway length and successful microbial metabolisms under a maximum energy harvest rate criterion. ISME 16th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, 21-26th August 2016, Montreal (Canada)
Ahmed W., Uratani JM and Rodríguez J.. Comparing models of different complexities for sulfate reduction in anaerobic digestion. 14th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion. November 2015. Vina del Mar, Chile.
Uratani JM., Ahmed W. and Rodríguez W. Modelling High Salinity Adaptation Of Biogas Production: A SBR Study. 14th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion. November 2015. Vina del Mar, Chile.
Perrotta A., Kumaraswamy R., Bastidas J., Alm EJ., Rodriguez J.. Selection of phylogentically similar but functionally divergent microbial populations in a sequential batch reactor system. 15th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, 24th-29th August 2014, Seoul, South Korea.
Oyetunde T., Sarma PM., Lema JM. and Rodríguez J. Modelling the bioelectrochemical conversion of VFAs to alcohols: Impact of operational variables. IWA Science Summit for Urban Water, 13th-17th July 2014, Harbin, China. (Received poster award)
Uratani J.M., Ahmed W. and Rodríguez J. Anaerobic digestion of halophyte plant biomass waste with an integrated wash pre-treatment for optimum biogas and nutrients recovery. ecoSTP2014 Conference, 23rd-27th June 2014, Verona,Italy.
Rashid K, Oyetunde T., Alassali, A., Rodríguez, J and Thomsen MH. 2013 Biofuels from the desert: the sustainability case for a Salicornia bigelovii-based biorefinery in Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy. 8th to 11th of December 2013, San Diego, (USA)
Oyetunde, T., Ofiteru, I.D., and Rodríguez. J. Modeling Bioelectrochemical Systems for (waste)water Treatment and Bioenergy Recovery with COMSOL. COMSOL 2013 Conference. 9th to 11th of October, Boston, (USA)
Oyetunde T., González-Cabaleiro R., Ahmad F.and Rodríguez J. Modeling multiple electrode reactions in bioelectrochemical systems. Invitation to the 4th International Microbial Fuel Cell Conference. 1st - 4th September 2013 Cairns, Queensland (Australia).
González-Cabaleiro R., Sharma M., Sarma P.M., Lema J.M., Rodríguez J. Bioelectrochemical reduction of VFAs into alcohols in a microbial electrolysis cell. 13th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 25th-28th June 2013, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Nwobi, I. Cybulska, J. Rodríguez, M.H. Thomsen. Enzymatic pre-treatment of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste. 13th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 25th-28th June 2013, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Alassali A., Oyetunde T., Rashid K., Baldwin R., Thomsen M.H., Rodríguez J. Anaerobic digestion as key process in the biorefinery on Salicornia plant biomass: Simulation study using Super Pro Designer®. 13th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 25th-28th June 2013, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Uratani J.M., Bastidas-Oyanedel J.R., Rodríguez J. Biomethane potential of biomass waste from the halophyte Salicornia bigelovii cultivated in sea water. 13th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 25th-28th June 2013, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Altunaji, H. H. Hernandez, J. Rodríguez. Assessing biomass hydrolysis capacity of camel rumen microorganisms for bioenergy production. 13th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 25th-28th June 2013, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Rodriguez-Verde I., García-Gen S., Fiorotto F., Bolzonella D., Rodríguez J., Carballa M., Lema J.M.. Simulation of anaerobic co-digesters performance treating winery waste and waste activated sludge. 13th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 25th-28th June 2013, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
González-Cabaleiro R., Lema J.M., Rodríguez J. Generalised acid-base calculation method for aqueous systems. 13th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 25th-28th June 2013, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Bastidas-Oyanedel J.R., Kumaraswany R., Rodríguez J. Stability and structure of different microbial communities during dark fermentation of glucose. 13th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 25th-28th June 2013, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Al Harethi A, Rodríguez J, Hernandez HH. Isolation and characterization of high saline tolerant algae strains from the United Arab Emirates, EnerBiomassa’12, Maceió, Alagoas, (Brazil), 2012
Alhajeri T, Rodríguez J, Hernandez HH. Analysis of ballast water microorganisms and their inactivation using approved IMO technologies, Emirate Swiss Friendship Forum, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2012
Al-Gaoud R., Sievert W., Wehbe S. and Rodríguez J. (2012) Design, performance and operation of SSF constructed wetlands in the United Arab Emirates. 13th IWA International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control, 25th -29th November 2012. Perth (Australia).
Rodríguez J. Bastidas J. Ahmad F. (2012) Integrated perchlorate removal and municipal WWT in a microbial fuel cell: A model based study. IWA EcoTechnologies for Wastewater Treatment EcoSTP, 25th-27th June 2012, Santiago de Compostela (Spain).